Will it be selling tickets?
No - they were giving away Edison tickets stamped in one of the old stamping machine they have there. An interest look around the inside of the building - the old ticket office and waiting room, and then the back office, with a historic interpretation provided by two of the team there, to whom a hearty "Thank You". The 175 anniversary of the station was celebrated in June 2019, and since this is the first public opening since then, so the look around was truly appreciated.
Our member's mirror -
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/281008culham.pdf - includes a series of external pictures from Lee, and it strikes me how little has changed. Arriving from Oxford, perhaps just 2 or 3 got off the train. Picking up the train an hour later, I was the only one joining and just one person got off. Apparently, Culham was the only brick built (Brunel) station between Didcot and Oxford - impressive for the lord of the manor who had a private driveway to the station, and in early telephone days (before exchanges - a direct line) would have the station alerted so that the London express could stop for him. How things have changed - these days the historic building and its platform are listed and preserved, asd a new platform with a modern shelter are provided just to the north.
We are short of housing in the
UK▸ and our new government vows to step up building, including some with somewhat relaxed rules of "where" on agricultural land, and near to where travel infrastructure in in place. I wonder if Culham has potential?
